Re: Changing voice order...

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-11-02 11:20, David Kastrup wrote:
> Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I mostly set vocal music - typically clean SATB with exactly four
> > voices on either two or four staves, but sometimes a voice splits to
> > two or three in between.  In that case, I'll almost always have a
> > four-staves situation.  This screams for << \\ >> or << \\ \\ >>.
> >
> > However, I attach lyrics to the voices, and that's why I give them
> > sensible names - namely, "sop" (or "soprano"), "alt", etc.  The
> > implicit voice naming with << \\ >> means that I have to split my
> > lyrics to separate context, or I'll have to rename the voices inside
> > << \\ >>.
>
> No, it just means that your lyrics have to follow the staff rather than
> a single voice unless your lyrics split as well.
>
> Can't find the issue number where this was made to work.  Still has
> problems with overlapping melismata if I remember correctly, so maybe
> that's why it's not advertised prominently.

Hum.  You mean if I name the staff instead of the voices, I can create 
lyrics that follow all voices that are active on this staff?
Doesn't seem to work, but I might not have the right syntax.  The only 
thing I'm aware of is using an "aligner" NullVoice, as shown in NR 
2.1.2: Polyphony with shared lyrics, but that's kinda clumsy, too.

By the way, your reply to Werner shows pretty much what I actually would 
consider useful: :-)

> [...]
> The problem I see right away with that is that it is useful.  How is
> that a problem?
>
> <<
>   \new Voice = "soprano" {
>      ...
>      \voices 1,soprano << ... \\ ... >>
>      ...
>   }
>   \lyricsto "soprano" { ... }
> >>
>
> Lo and behold, we have a solution for an old problem.
> [...]


Cheers,
Alexander